SPLITSnow: A spectral light transport model for snow
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Abstract
Snow is a fundamental component of the climate system. It is also an important part of the planet's hydrological cycle. Accordingly, the investigation of its light scattering properties is essential for remote sensing applications employed in the estimation of changes in the current amount of snowpack. These wide-scale environmental changes are key indicators of future climate events affecting global sustainability. Viewed in this context, computational simulations of light interactions with snow can be used to increase the effectiveness-to-cost ratio of remote sensing initiatives in this area. More specifically, by enabling a controlled assessment of the effects of snow granular structure and composition parameters on its light reflection and transmission profiles, these simulations can be instrumental in the high-fidelity interpretation of data remotely acquired from snow-covered landscapes that pose sizable challenges for field work. In order to contribute to these interdisciplinary research efforts, this paper presents a novel light transport model for snow that can predictively simulate the spectral and spatial distributions of light interacting with this ubiquitous particulate material. While the former radiometric responses are quantified in terms of hyperspectral reflectance and transmittance, the latter are quantified in terms of BSDF (bidirectional scattering distribution function). The proposed model employs a first-principles simulation approach that accounts for the positional dependence of the scattered light in the quantification of its spatial distribution. Thus, this distribution can also be expressed in terms of BSSDF (bidirectional surface-scattering distribution function). The predictive capabilities of the proposed model are quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated by comparing modeled results with measured data obtained from in situ experiments and phenomenological traits reported in the literature, respectively.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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